Beresheet was Israel’s first mission to the Moon and a project led by the private company SpaceIL with support from the Israeli Space Agency. The spacecraft was designed to land on the lunar surface in April 2019. It launched from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 22, 2019. The spacecraft used a series of expanding orbits around Earth to save fuel. It later entered lunar orbit and prepared for landing. It lost contact during its descent on April 11, 2019.
